Progressive New York : change and reform in the Empire State, 1900-1920: a reader / Bruce W. Dearstyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dearstyne, Bruce W., 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Sources.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history,.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Advent of Progressivism

The Progressive Wave in New York

Themes in New York Progressivism

The Political Parties Changed Course

Women Often Took the Lead

People in New York City's Progressive Community Reinforced Each Other

Many Reforms Started in New York City and Spread to the Rest of the State (and Sometimes to the Rest of the Nation)

Reformers Innovated and Improvised

News Media, "Muckrakers" and Analytical Reports Paved the Way

State Government Moved from the Margins to Center Stage

New York Courts Generally Backed the Progressives

Reckoning with New York's Progressive Era

Plan of the Book

Notes

1 Gauging the Tenor of the Times

Extreme Wealth on Display

From The Reign of Gilt (1905) by David Graham Phillips

From "Drift" to "Mastery"

From Drift and Mastery (1914) by Walter Lippmann

Making Systematic, Incremental Progress

From The New Democracy (1912) by Walter E. Weyl

The Rising Standard of Living

From The City Worker's World in America (1917) by Mary K. Simkhovitch

The "Social Gospel" Fuels Progressivism

From Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) by Walter Rauschenbusch

Summary of the Argument

A Skeptical View of Modern Trends

From "A Layman's Views of an Art Exhibition," Outlook (1913) by Theodore Roosevelt

A Plea for Rural Values

From The Country Life Movement in the United States (1915) by Liberty Hyde Bailey

Some Interrelations of the City and Country

Comparisons of Town and Country Affairs

The Two Minds

Will the American Farmer Hold his Own?

What Is to be the Outcome of Our Industrial Civilization?

1. The Making of a New Society

The Anarchist's Plea

From "What I Believe" (1908) by Emma Goldman

I. As to Property

II. As to Government.

IV. As to Free Speech and Press

V. As to the Church

VI. As to Marriage and Love

Sources

2 Building Grand Enterprises

A Grand Expo in Buffalo

From Official Catalogue and Guide Book to the Pan-American Exposition (1901)

The Exposition

General Plan of Grounds

Exposition Color Scheme

Illumination

Architectural Features

The Grand Canal

A New Cross-State Canal

From The Thousand-Ton Barge Improvement (1903) by the Canal Improvement State Committee

Canal Case Summed Up

New York City Opens Its Subway

From "Our Subway Open, 150,000 Try It," New York Times, October 28, 1904

Official Train on Time

Carnival Night in Town

Several Cases of Firsts

An Old Story Even Now

An Outstanding New Venue for Baseball

From "Ebbets Field Has No Rival in Baseball," New York Tribune (April 6, 1913)

Pioneering in Aviation

From "Flight Down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City," The Curtiss Aviation Book (1912) by Glenn Hammond Curtiss

A Grand New Train Station

From "New Grand Central Terminal Opens Its Doors," New York Times (February 2, 1913)

Reclamation of Millions

Technology and Innovation

From Book of the Kodak Exhibition (1912) by Eastman Kodak Company

The Kodak Idea

"Kodak"

3 Reforming Politics and Government

Politics, Government, and "Honest Graft"

From Plunkett of Tammany Hall (1905) by George Washington Plunkett and William L. Riordon

"Muckrakers" Help Propel Progressivism

From "Concerning Three Articles in this Number of McClure's and a Coincidence That May Set Us Thinking," McClure's (1903) by S. S. McClure

Newspapers Expose Political Corruption

From New York Evening Post (January 18, 1910)

Senator Conger's Exact Charge

"The Treason of the Senate".

From "The Treason of the Senate: New York's Misrepresentatives," Cosmopolitan Magazine (March 1906) by David Graham Phillips

The Vanderbilts' Creature

Direct Primaries

From "Message to the Legislature" (January 6, 1909) in Public Papers of Charles E. Hughes, Governor by Governor Charles Evans Hughes

Primaries

A Day of Reform Triumphs

From "Message to the Legislature" (December 8, 1913) in Public Papers of Martin H. Glynn, Governor by Governor Martin H. Glynn

From "All Glynn Bills to Pass This Week," New York Times (December 10, 1913)

Tammany Old-Timers Dazed

New York's Progressive Party Presents an Aspirational Agenda

From State Platform, National Progressive Party of the State of New York Adopted by the State Convention, Syracuse, N.Y., Sept. 5, 1912 (1912) by the National Progressive Party of the State of New York

The Rule of the People

Veering Away from Progressivism

From Revolutionary Radicalism (1920) by the Joint Legislative Committee Investigating Seditious Activities

General Introduction

4 Improving People's Lives

Educating Young New Yorkers

From American Education (1909) by Andrew S. Draper

Revealing How Poor New Yorkers Live

From How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1901) by Jacob Riis

The Benefits of Tenement House Reform

From The Tenement House Problem (1908) edited by Robert W. DeForest and Lawrence Veiller

Charitable Assistance for New York's Poor

From Twenty-Sixth Annual Report for the Year Ending September 30, 1908 (1908) by the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York

Helping People Take Care of Themselves

From For You: It is Hard to Get Money, It is Harder to Spend it Right, Health is Wealth (1910) by Charity Organization Society of New York and New York City Tenement House Department.

Don't Rent Dark Rooms

Don't Take Chances on Getting Sick

Good Housekeeping

If Things Are Wrong

You Can Complain

When You Rent a Tenement Make Sure

Settlement Houses and Visiting Nurses Ease City Life

From The House on Henry Street (1915) by Lillian D. Wald

Restricting Alcoholic Beverages

From "New York" in Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America (1919) by William H. Anderson

Censorship Impacts Lives

From Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord (1927) by Heywood Broun and Margaret Leech

Strengthening Public Health

From Thirty Sixth Annual Report of the State Department of Health for the Year Ending December 31, 1915 (1915) by New York State Department of Health

Protecting Rural New York

From Powers and Territory of the New York State Troopers (1918) by Committee for State Police

5 Strengthening Women's Status

Women Struggle for Equality in the Workplace

From A Woman of Fifty (1924) by Rheta Childe Door

Chapter VI. Are Women Wage Earners Accidents?

Women Already Influence Public Policy

They Should be Able to Vote

From "The Legislative Influence of Unenfranchised Women" (1914) by Mary Ritter Beard

Making the Case for Women's Suffrage

From "What Woman Suffrage Stands For" (1917) booklet by New York State Woman Suffrage Party

From "Twelve Reasons Why Women Should Vote" (1917) booklet by New York State Woman Suffrage Party

BECAUSE

From "Modern Representative Government" (1917) booklet by New York State Woman Suffrage Party

From "Suffrage as a War Measure" (1917) booklet by New York State Woman Suffrage Party

Securing the Right to Vote

From Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement (1923) by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Schuler

Chapter XIX. The Decisive Battle.

Women Can Vote, What Comes Next?

From "Now We Can Begin," The Liberator (1920) by Crystal Eastman

Public Support Encourages Women's Labor Activism

From "The Working Girls and Women of Rochester" by Edwin and Catherine Rumball, The Common Good: An Independent Magazine of Civic and Social Rochester (1913) by Edwin and Catherine Rumball

Advocating for "Voluntary Motherhood"

From Woman and the New Race (1921) by Margaret Sanger

The Goal

6 Welcoming Newcomers

Immigrants Encounter New York

From The Rise of David Levinsky (1917) by Abraham Cahan

Adjusting to American Ways

From "The Making of an American," Outlook (1903) by David Blaustein

Aiding Immigrants

From "Solving the Immigration Problem," Outlook (1904) by Gino Carlo Speranza

Explaining the Immigrant Experience

From An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant (1917) by Marcus Eli Ravage

XII. Shirts and Philosophy

Documenting Immigrants' Challenges in New York

From Report of the Commission of Immigration of the State of New York (1909)

The Alien in New York State

Economic Conditions

Asserting That Some Newcomers Are a Threat

From The Passing of the Great Race (1916) by Madison Grant

Defining New York's "Cultural Pluralism"

From "Democracy Versus the Melting Pot," The Nation (1915) by Horace Kallen

7 Reckoning with Race

Probing Black New Yorkers' Burdens

From Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York (1911) by Mary White Ovington

An Outburst of Cultural Achievement

From The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925) by Alain Locke

The New Negro

Harlem Becomes a Center of Black Culture

From "Harlem: The Cultural Center," in Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro (1925) by James Weldon Johnson

New York's Racial Ambivalence.

From "The Paradox of Color," in Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro (1925) by Walter White.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438497396

1438497393

OCLC:

1427665650